Accident Database

Report ID#67311

2019-07-01
accident date
Unidentified Man
victim
50
victim age
Clear Creek
river
03. Lawson to Idaho Springs
section
Dumont section.
location
1000 cfs
gage
High
water level
IV
river difficulty
Flush Drowning
cause code(s)
Does not Apply
injury type(s)
Cold Water, High Water
factors
Commercial
trip type
Raft
boat type
status?
status

Description

POSTED 2:47 PM, JULY 1, 2019, BY ERIC RUBLE CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, Colo. — A man from Arizona died in a rafting accident on Clear Creek in Clear Creek County Monday.The Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office said that at 10:30 a.m., its communication center received a report of a rafting accident in the 2500 block of Stanley Road, which is about 2 1/2 miles northwest of Idaho Springs. At the time of the report, CPR was being performed on a man. Sheriff’s deputies, the Clear Creek Fire Authority, Clear Creek Ambulance and the Clear Creek County Advocates responded. About 11:11 a.m., the 50-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. The man was on a guided rafting trip with Down Stream Rafting Company, according to the sheriff’s office.The man’s name will be released once his family is notified. His death is at least the eighth in Colorado waters since June 7.